April 15th, 2006
Man Allegedly Rapes Teen After Meeting On Myspace.Com:
CrimeFighters are investigating the alleged sexual assault of an Oceanside teenager. The victim apparently met her attacker on the popular website myspace.com.
Nineteen-year-old Luis Alvarado was arrested in Hollywood and booked into the Vista Detention Facility.
Police say Alvarado drove to Oceanside last month to meet the 13-year-old victim, after […]
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April 14th, 2006
Waterford man used MySpace to find teens willing to pose nude, police say:
WATERFORD TOWNSHIP — A former music teacher used drugs and alcohol to help convince dozens of local high school girls and recent graduates to pose nude on the Internet, investigators said.
Waterford Police said they arrested the 43-year-old resident Thursday on charges of possession […]
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April 14th, 2006
Reams: Predators love MySpace:
HAMPTON - “Arrests made in connection with MySpace.com.” “Authorities arrest man accused of luring students online.”
Those were just two recent cases ripped from the headlines that Rockingham County Attorney Jim Reams used to illustrate the dangers of MySpace.com and other similar sites, to 100 residents who attended Thursday’s Internet safety forum […]
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April 14th, 2006
Mom finds her teen�s secret life on MySpace:
Another parent with no clue waking up to the harsh reality of their kids and the internet…
Q: My 15-year-old daughter has a MySpace website (I overheard her talking about it on the phone with a girlfriend), and I was able to check it out last week. I was […]
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April 14th, 2006
Online discussion leads to misdemeanor charge:
A Troy middle school English teacher has been arrested and accused with stepping over the line in computer exchanges with his students.
Thirty-four-year-old Brian Switzer is suspended from his teaching position at Doyle Middle School and charged with the misdemeanor of endangering the welfare of a child.
Early in the morning, […]
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April 14th, 2006
Teen Arrested After MySpace Threat To Math Teacher:
Another day, another MySpace threat. This time in Oregon…
A 17-year-old Alsea High School student has been arrested after he posted a message on the Internet threatening a math teacher.
Benton County Sheriff’s Office officials say the student is a senior.
Deputies say the teen made the threat, including the […]
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April 14th, 2006
Steve Huff of Huff’s Crime Blog has an entry about Kristina Colon, the daughter of actress Lourdes Colon. Kristina went missing and was possibly abducted by a MySpace user. Please go to Steve’s blog to see if you can help.
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April 14th, 2006
Suburban congressman wants FTC to warn parents about MySpace:
So Congressman Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) wants the Federal Trade Commission to issue a national consumer alert warning for parents to look at the web pages their children are posting on MySpace. Isn’t that basically wasting taxpayers’ money on something that used to be known as common sense?
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April 14th, 2006
Firefighters suspended over myspace pictures:
Haven’t public servants learned about the “friends only” feature yet?
(Southbury-WTNH, Apr. 13, 2006 8:04 PM) _ What firefighters say began as a joke on myspace.com has turned into suspensions and an investigation by the chief.
Four Southbury volunteer firefighters were suspended last month after posting what officers say were graphic pictures and […]
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April 13th, 2006
MyCrimeSpace has officially opened its own MySpace and can be found here. I’m using it to post the MySpace Rogues Gallery.
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April 13th, 2006
Bad Jocks has a mirrored version of Pamela Rogers’ MySpace. I’m not going to link it directly so search for it yourself.
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April 13th, 2006
Ex-teacher rearrested in teen sex case:
McMINNVILLE, Tenn. (AP) A former elementary school teacher who spent six months in jail for having sex with a 13-year-old student was arrested again, this time for violating probation by apparently communicating with the victim.
Pamela Rogers, 28, was arrested Tuesday and released on $10,000 bond. A judge Wednesday ordered […]
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April 13th, 2006
Prosecutor Accused Of Using MySpace To Promote His Second Job:
This is a weird one…
MIAMI — Questions raised about an assistant state attorney’s personal Web page have led to him being removed from a high-profile case.
Lawyers representing former University of Miami and Washington Redskins safety Sean Taylor asked the judge in his aggravated assault and simple […]
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April 13th, 2006
Police probe fake MySpace page targeted at teacher:
Students at Coon Rapids Middle School allegedly created a MySpace account that was meant to damage the reputation of a teacher at the school by misrepresenting itself as the teacher’s MySpace page, according to law enforcement officers familiar with the investigation.
The page on the popular social networking site […]
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April 12th, 2006
Seven Parsippany students suspended for MySpace accounts:
Is this hypocrisy or not? You make the call…
PARSIPPANY — Seven Parsippany High School students will serve 5-day suspensions starting next Monday for setting up two MySpace.com accounts filled with photos and “vulgarities” about classmates and teachers, Interim Superintendent James Dwyer said today.
The students used cell phone cameras to […]
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